Architects and designers such as Neutra, Rudolph Schindler and Paul Frankl came from the sophisticated city of Vienna and settled in Los Angeles, where forward-looking Jewish film moguls would commission modem houses.

The architect's iconic Lovell House popped up in the movie LA Confidential (1997) as the home of the villainous pimp Pierce Patchett; more recently still, fashion designer Tom Ford acquired a Neutra house.

Thinking that he was to be highlighted along with Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, he accepted, only to discover that several American architects were to be shown, including Hood and Richard Neutra, both of whom he despised.

The Sarasota School architects did not invent the slider--Le Corbusier, Richard Neutra and other modern luminaries were already using movable walls of glass when the Sarasota boys got their hands on them.

There's so much you want to say about each of these images and just not enough time," says Rolland in exasperation, pointing to what is clearly her favorite, a photograph of a glass-sided house created by Richard Neutra.

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